They are banking on the belief that “parametric” and “history based” modeling have limitations in the ease of use and complexity, and that it is too easy to build yourself into a corner which you can’t get out of easily. Spaceclaim is a new CAD venture by parametric modeling heavy weights Mike Payne and Daniel Dean, both founding fathers of PTC.

I just thought it was time to stop talking about Spaceclaim conceptually, and start talking about it concretely.īefore we get too concrete, I just want to state some of the facts around the topic. They did provide me with the software, knowing that I write a blog, and that I’m kind of brutal on software in general, but that I am sympathetic to their overall philosophy. Spaceclaim does not like to give out evaluation copies of the software, I suppose they saw me as an opportunity to get some end user validation and a bit of publicity. I’ve spent a fair amount of energy talking about this software and its philosophy, but now I finally get to use it one on one.

He takes a bit of a different point of view, which is part of what’s great about having multiple people review software. To my knowledge, this is the second public user evaluation of the Spaceclaim CAD modeler, with Deelip Menezes having beaten me to the punch in his blog.

Spaceclaim to solidworks